Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire who play in the European Super League competition. They play their home games at the Galpharm Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F.C.. Huddersfield is also one of the original twenty-two rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, making them one of the world's first rugby league teams. The club, particularly amongst older supporters, is sometimes referred locally as Fartown named after the ground which they occupied up until 1994, which is located in the Fartown district of Huddersfield. They play in a distinctive strip of a claret shirt with thin gold hoops, claret shorts and claret and gold hooped socks and are currently sponsored by the University of Huddersfield. They have rivalries with Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Bulls, Halifax RLFC and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

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History

Early years

The earliest record of a football match being played in the Huddersfield area is in 1848, when a team of men from Hepworth took on a team of men from Holmfirth near Whinney Bank in Holmfirth. Hepworth won a close fought game which "exhibited the usual amount of confusions, bloody noses, etc" and took the prize of £5 which had been jointly donated by each side.

There appears to have been no formal structure to sport in the Huddersfield area until the opening of the Apollo Gymnasium on August 3, 1850. At this time the gymnasium was the only venue in the town where young men could take part in physical activities, it offered the opportunity to participate in fencing, swimming, bowling, cricket and many other sports.

In 1864 the Apollo Gymnasium was turned into the Gymnasium Theatre. The athletes of the gymnasium responded by forming a more organised athletics association. In an advertisement headed "Huddersfield Athletic Club" they invited "gentlemen desirous of becoming members" to a public meeting at 8 o'clock on the evening of November 16, 1864 at the Queen Hotel. The meeting went ahead, a hundred names were registered and a committee was formed. Within a month a new gymnasium was in service in a basement on Back John William Street.

On January 27, 1866 twenty members of the Huddersfield Athletic Club agreed to play a football match against twenty of the Huddersfield Rifle Corps at Rifle Field in Trinity Street. Although the result was a scoreless draw, a large crowd was attracted. In light of this the Huddersfield Athletic Club agreed to start a football section which was to start at the beginning of December 1866. Initially the Huddersfield Athletic Club made no contribution to the support of the football club and each paying member was forced to pay a subscription of 2s 6d. As the football club grew, it became a useful recruiting tool for the Huddersfield Athletic Club. In 1869 six matches were played and by 1870 three of the club's players had been selected to represent Yorkshire. By 1872 there were so many players that a second team was formed.

The growth in popularity of the club and the need for better facilities led to the Huddersfield Athletic Club approaching St John's Cricket Club with a proposal to merge the two clubs. St John's Cricket Club had been formed in 1866 at Hillhouse and had moved to Fartown ground. By 1875, when amalgamation talks began, over £800 had been spent on developing the new ground. At a meeting on November 27, 1875, at the Thornhill Arms Inn the two clubs agreed to merge to form the Huddersfield Cricket and Athletics Club. The motion was passed by 55 votes to 37.

Initially the football section stayed at Rifle Field, but alterations made in the summer of 1878 meant that rugby could begin at the start of the 1878/9 season with the visit of Manchester Rangers on November 2. The new ground would become the club's home for 114 years and would provide the club's famous "Fartown" nickname.

Northern Union and golden years

In 1895 the club were founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union, (later the Rugby Football League).

The club has seen many ups and downs in its long history, but for the first 60 years of rugby league it was one of the powerhouses of the game, with only Wigan as rivals in terms of trophies won.

Harold Wagstaff was only fifteen years and one hundred and seventy-five days old when he played his first match for Huddersfield, against Bramley in November 1906. At the time, he was the youngest first-team player the game had seen, he had signed on for a £5 signing-on fee.

Huddersfield beat the touring 1908-1909 Kangaroos 5-3. They were impressed enough with stand-off Albert Rosenfeld to sign him up that evening along with Australian Dual Code International Pat Walsh one of the best forwards of the Kangaroos . Rosenfeld played his first game against Broughton Rangers on 11 September 1909.

The club's golden period came around the time of the First World War. The club was able to assemble a team of players from across the British Empire who swept all before them. Known as "The Team of All Talents", they were led by Harold Wagstaff and are still regarded as one of the finest football teams to have ever played. In the five years leading up to the First World War they won 13 trophies.

Two members of the team, centre Harold Wagstaff and wing Albert Rosenfeld were honoured by inclusion in the original Rugby League Hall of Fame. They were later joined by the Cumbrian second row Douglas Clark. Of just seventeen players to be elected to the Hall of Fame, no fewer than three were teammates in that famous Huddersfield side. In total, Huddersfield boast five representatives in the Hall of Fame, more than any other club.

The particular fame of "The Team of All Talents" sprung from their extraordinary three quarter play. In 1911-1912, Rosenfeld became the first player to score more than 50 tries in a season - a feat previously thought to be impossible. That season he scored 78. His wing partner, Stanley Moorhouse scored 52. In 1912-1913, Rosenfeld scored 56, and then in 1913-1914 he broke his own record with 80 tries, a record which stands to this day.

On 28 February 1914, the club defeated Swinton Park by a record 119-2 (Rosenfeld contributing 7 tries) in a Challenge Cup tie at Fartown. The record would stand until 26 November 1994 when the Huddersfield club broke their own World Record by defeating Blackpool Gladiators 142-4 in a Challenge Cup tie at the McAlpine Stadium - centre Greg Austin scoring 9 tries on his way to 52 tries that season, a world record for a centre. In the season 1914-1915 they became only the second team to win "all four cups" when they lifted the Championship, the Challenge Cup, the Yorkshire Cup, and the Yorkshire League. Huddersfield's dominance prior to the First World War was such that they went unbeaten in 38 consecutive matches before the suspension of the league in 1915.

Huddersfield did not take part in the 1918-9 season. In the 1919-20 season, the first five games were won for a 43 match unbeaten run over six years which still stands as a record today. The unbeaten run consisted of 28 league matches, 8 Yorkshire Cup-ties, 5 Challenge Cup-ties and 2 League Championship play-offs. In addition, Huddersfield were drawing 8-8 in a Yorkshire Cup-tie that was abandoned because of fog and replayed.

The Yorkshire Cup and Yorkshire League trophies were already won when Huddersfield met Wigan in the Challenge Cup final which resulted in a 21-10 victory. Widnes were defeated in the Championship semi-final and Hull waited at Headingley as Huddersfield strove for a clean sweep of silverware. Huddersfield were missing five players who were touring Australasia with Great Britain and Hull won 3-2.

Albert Rosenfeld's last game for the club was on 2 April 1921, a cup-tie against Leeds.

Post war

Huddersfield won the League Championship in 1949, beating Warrington 13-12 in the final at Maine Road in front of what was at the time a world record crowd of 75,194. This capitalised on a season which also brought home the Yorkshire League title.

The highest attendance at Fartown to watch a Huddersfield game was 32,912 against Wigan on the 4 March 1950. More success followed in the 1950 season as Huddersfield retained the Yorkshire League title and reached another Championship final at Maine Road. However, on this occasion Wigan proved too strong, winning 20 points to 12.

On Saturday 17 November 1951, in an ordinary league game, Australian Lionel Cooper scored a club record ten tries, as Huddersfield defeated Keighley 48-3 at Fartown.

Before by the end of the 1950s, Huddersfield had won 3 Yorkshire cup finals, in 1950/51, 1952/53 and 1957/58, and the Challenge Cup final, in 1952/53. Huddersfield beat St Helens 15 - 10 in the 1953 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley.

Wakefield Trinity beat Huddersfield 16-10 in the 1960 Yorkshire Cup final at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on the 29th October 1960. ^[1]

In 1962, the league was split into East and West of the Pennines; Huddersfield and Hull Kingston Rovers met at Headingley, Leeds in the first final of the Eastern Division Championship on Saturday 10 November 1962.

Reigning Champions Huddersfield were favourites to lift the Eastern Division title, especially as Rovers were missing five first choice players with injuries. The Robins, however, set the early pace and were 10-0 up after 30 minutes. Despite a rally by Huddersfield, Rovers hung on to win 13-10.

Decline and revival

By the 1970s, the club had become a shadow of its former self, the old Fartown ground had fallen into disrepair and the club frequently finished in the lower reaches of the league. Local businessman, John Bailey, took a controlling interest in the stadium, the club and the pavilion. In 1984, in an attempt to revive the club, Huddersfield adopted the moniker 'Barracudas' and Fartown was renamed Arena 84 . As the crowds continued to stay away, it became clear that Bailey could not stem the decline.

Huddersfield Rugby League Club was on the point of collapse. A new board of directors took over in 1989 when and injected some much needed financial resources into the club. The 'Barracudas' and 'Arena 84' were dropped for the 1988/9 season. Nigel Stephenson was appointed as coach and Huddersfield were helped by several clubs, in particular Featherstone Rovers, to put a reasonable squad together. As well as beginning to improve the playing staff, the new owners also carried out a considerable amount of work on the Fartown stadium and by the end of the 1989/90 season significant progress was being made. Average crowds topped 1,500 for the first time since the 1970s.

Shortly after the 1991/2 season had begun, Alex Murphy took over as coach in 1991. Huddersfield were the first ever champions of the newly-formed third division in 1991/2. Promotion to the Second Division had been achieved, and there was pride once again in the famous claret and gold shirt. The expense of this achievement cost the club dearly and a new financial crisis arrived. However, along came a bright new consortium who began to shape the future of the club once again. The club left Fartown and moved to Huddersfield Town's home ground at Leeds Road in 1992.

In 1993 six teams were invited to take part in an inaugural European Clubs Championship, the six teams consisted of two from the USSR; Tiraspol and Moscow Magicians, two from France; Carcassonne and XIII Catalan and Batley and Huddersfield. Only weeks before departure the plans collapsed as both Soviet clubs pulled out due to financial difficulties, closely followed by Batley, Carcassonne who had just five players available due to a players’ strike. This left just Huddersfield and XIII Catalan to meet in the "final" in Barcelona. The lead changed hands three times before Huddersfield held on for a 23 – 22 victory.

Huddersfield took a share in the new McAlpine Stadium (now known as Galpharm Stadium) in 1994. In 1995 the first team reached the final of the Second Division premiership competition at Old Trafford.

Summer rugby era

In 1996, Ken Davy took over as chairman of Huddersfield and "Giants" was added to the team name. Ken’s first trophy came in 1997 at Old Trafford where Huddersfield beat Hull 18-0 in the Divisional Championship.

In 1998, due to the collapse of Paris St Germain the club was promoted to Super League despite not winning the second division title. However, dark days continued, the team struggled to compete, winning only a handful of games. Garry Schofield was removed as Huddersfield Giants coach after 12 matches in 1998 because he lacked the necessary coaching qualifications. He was replaced by Mal Reilly who was sacked at the end of the season.

In late 1999, the club merged with Sheffield Eagles almost purely for financial reasons. Sheffield coach John Kear took over as head coach of the merged side. They were officially known as the Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants, but more popularly as 'Shuddersfield'. The Association of Premiership Clubs blocked proposals for a separate Huddersfield team in the Northern Ford Premiership. They played two home games in Sheffield at Bramall Lane with the others in Huddersfield, the away strip was in the Sheffield Eagles colours. In the 2000 season Huddersfield-Sheffield won only four games, three of them against rivals Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. This arrangement lasted only a season before the Huddersfield name was reverted to, due to rejection from both sets of fans. In the four seasons between 1998 and 2001, they lost 81 times in 99 matches, avoiding relegation for a variety of reasons.

Coach John Kear was sacked and this signaled a change in fortune for the club. Little-known Australian Tony Smith was appointed as coach for the 2001 season after a rigorous process. This did not seem to have any effect as the club lost he first 14 matches of the season, culminating in a 78 point embarrassment by Bradford Bulls. This low point became a pivotal day for the club, however. The club won 6 and drew one of the remaining 14 games, only finishing bottom of the table after Wakefield's appeal against a 4-point salary cap deduction was successful. Widnes Vikings won the NFP competition that year and the club was seen to be fit to play in Super League. The Giants were finally relegated after their best season in Super League.

In 2002 Huddersfield Giants remained a full-time professional teams despite playing in the Northern Ford Premiership. The club went unbeaten for the entire league season, drawing only one match and winning a record equalling 29 games. Along the way the team accumulated 1,156 points to equal the record for points in a league season achieved in 8 more games by Leigh in 1986. The team won the Buddies Cup, as it was then known, and also the NFP Grand Final against Leigh in October 2002, which secured promotion back to the Super League for the 2003 season.

In 2003 under Smith, the Giants established themselves as a Super League club, finishing 10th, above Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and Halifax Blue Sox. After guiding the Giants back to Super League, Smith and assistant coach Brian McDermott moved onto Headingley to take control of the Leeds Rhinos. St Helens assistant coach and former Hull forward Jon Sharp was appointed head coach for 2004 and the team improved again, finishing 7th in the league and making their first appearance in the Challenge Cup semi-finals since 1971.

The beginning of the 2005 Super League season saw the club make its highest-profile signing in fifty years when Australian centre Michael De Vere signed from the Brisbane Broncos, becoming the club's first Australian international player since Pat Devery in the 1950s.

For the kick off of the 2006 season the club unveiled a host of new signings to strengthen the squad, including the iconic New Zealand international scrum half Robbie Paul. After a convincing victory over Salford in the quarter final, the Giants faced Leeds Rhinos (ironically coached by Tony Smith) in the Challenge Cup semi-final at Odsal Stadium, Bradford. Against all the odds, massive underdogs Huddersfield pulled out what is regarded as possibly their best performance of modern times, Stuart Donlan and Chris Nero with 2 tries apiece and Michael De Vere with a try and five goals steering them to a 30-12 victory. Huddersfield lost the Challenge Cup Final to eventual Super League champions St Helens 42-12, but the performance heralded the best Huddersfield achievement since 1970.

Play-offs for the first time

The start of the 2007 season saw the Giants make some exciting signings, including West Tigers trio, Jamahl Lolesi, John Skandalis and Shane Elford, as well as Ryan Hudson who returned to rugby league after completing a 2-year drugs ban.

Despite much optimism, the season started horrendously for the Giants in terms of results. After 7 consecutive losses they found themselves marooned at the foot of the table, 5 points adrift, but ironically with the second best defence in the league. Large sections of the fans began to question the coach's ability and as a result crowds began to dwindle and morale was beginning to suffer. However, Jon Sharp maintained that the Giants could turn it around, noting that all of their prior defeats were within a converted try of victory.

By the end of May, the picture was totally different. The Giants had a Challenge Cup quarter-final to look forward to and had successfully been on their longest ever winning streak since joining the Super League (9 games including two wins in the Challenge Cup. The highlight of this run was the 36-12 victory over the Bradford Bulls in front of the Sky Television cameras on 18 May, the Giants first victory over the Bulls since joining the top flight. ^[2] In addition, Sharp was named consecutively as Coach of the Month for April ^[3] and May ^[4]

The Giants winning run came to an unexpected end in a shock 14-12 defeat by Salford City Reds at the Willows. They had been overwhelming favourites with fans and bookies as Salford have been rooted to the bottom of the table for the most of the season. After the defeat Huddersfield coach Jon Sharp was quoted as saying that the Giants had contributed to their own downfall by playing a poor kick and chase. Following the 2006 Challenge Cup Final appearance, Giants continued their progress by beating Wakefield for the 9th consecutive occasion to qualify for the play-offs for the first time and a match against Hull FC at the KC Stadium, which was lost 22-16.

2008 Super League season

The Giants started the new campaign missing some familiar faces. Long-serving Paul Reilly and Aussie hooker Brad Drew departed to Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Robbie Paul and Mat Gardner went to Salford and Chris Nero also left the Giants to join Bradford Bulls. Luke Robinson and David Hodgson joined from Salford while George Gatis and Kiwi Paul Whatuira agreed to move from NRL and Danny Kirmond came in from Featherstone Rovers. It was announced on 22 April 2008 that after playing 10 games of 11 George Gatis was in fact to leave the Giants and return to Australia due to 'personal reasons' The club appeared to have supported Gatis' early exit from his 2 year contract. The misery of the 2008 season continued for the Giants when they were knocked out of the Challenge cup in the fourth round against Hull Kingston Rovers.

It was announced on 2 June 2008 that Huddersfields coach of 5 years Jon Sharp had been sacked after a miserable first half of the 2008 season. Huddersfield became the third superleague club to sack their coach within as many weeks following a spate of bad results. On the 18th of July it was announced that Nathan Brown would replace Jon Sharp when St. George Illawarra Dragons decided not to renew his contract after the 2008 season.

2009 Squad

'''As of 13th June, 2009

Nationality	Player	Position	Previous Club
	1. Brett Hodgson	FB	West Tigers
	2. Martin Aspinwall	W	Wigan Warriors
	3. Kevin Brown	C	Wigan Warriors
	4. Paul Whatuira	C	Wests Tigers
	5. David Hodgson	W	Salford City Reds
	6. Liam Fulton	SO	Wests Tigers
	7. Luke Robinson	SH	Salford City Reds
	8. Eorl Crabtree	P	Huddersfield Giants
	9. David Faiumu	HK	North Queensland Cowboys
	10. Darrell Griffin	P	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
	11. Jamahl Lolesi	SR	Wests Tigers
	12. Andy Raleigh	SR	Hull KR
	13. Stephen Wild	LF	Wigan Warriors
	14. Simon Finnigan	SR	Bradford Bulls
	15. Paul Jackson	P	Castleford Tigers
	16. Keith Mason	P	St Helens
	17. Michael Korkidas	P	Castleford Tigers
	18. Danny Kirmond	SR	Featherstone Rovers
	19. Michael Lawrence	W	Huddersfield Giants
	20. Scott Moore	HK	St Helens
	21. Leroy Cudjoe	FB	Huddersfield Giants
	22. Jermaine McGilvary	W	Huddersfield Giants
	23. Joe Walsh	SR	Harlequins
	24. Shaun Lunt	HK	Workington Town
	25. Chris Lawson	P	Huddersfield Giants
	26. Tom Hemingway	SH	Huddersfield Giants
	27. Richard Lopag	W	Huddersfield Giants
	28. Josh Griffin	C	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats
	29. Keale Carlile	HK	Bradford Bulls
	30. Larne Patrick	SR	Bradford Bulls
	31. Adam Walker	PR	Huddersfield Giants
	32. Lee Mossop	SR	Wigan Warriors
	33. Danny Sculthorpe	PR	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats

	Name	Signed from	Fee	Date
	Brett Hodgson	Wests Tigers		August 2008
	Scott Moore	Castleford Tigers/ St Helens	Season loan	August 2008
	Simon Finnigan	Bradford Bulls		September 2008
	Josh Griffin	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats		October 2008
	Michael Korkidas	Castleford Tigers		November 2008
	Greg McNally	Whitehaven		November 2008
	Larne Patrick	Australia		December 2008
	Shaun Lunt	Workington Town		December 2008
	Joe Walsh	Harlequins		November 2008
	Keale Carlile	Bradford Bulls		December 2008
	Liam Fulton	Wests Tigers	Season loan	March 2009
	Danny Sculthorpe	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	Season loan	May 2009
	David Fa’alogo	South Sydney Rabbitohs		Next season
	Lee Gilmour	St Helens		Next Season

	Name	Signed for	Fee	Date
	Rod Jensen	Northern Pride		August 2008
	Ryan Hudson	Castleford Tigers		September 2008
	Stuart Jones	Castleford Tigers		September 2008
	Chris Thorman	Hull FC		August 2008
	Steve Snitch	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats		August 2008
	Shane Elford	Penrith Panthers		October 2008
	John Skandalis	Retired		October 2008
	Gregg McNally	Whitehaven	On Loan	December 2008
	Michael Korkidas	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	On Loan	May 2009

Thomas Banks, for England while at Huddersfield 1931 Wales William "Billy" Banks, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield against France (2 matches) (World Cup 1954 Squad 0-caps) James "Jim" Bowden, for England while at Huddersfield 1953 France, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1954 Australia x 2, New Zealand Leonard "Len" Bowkett, for England while at Huddersfield 1932 Wales Kenneth "Ken" Bowman circa-1962 P. J. Brady (#7), for Other Nations while at Huddersfield 1904 England Brian Briggs, for England while at Huddersfield 1956 France, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1954 New Zealand Frederick "Fred" Brindle, for England while at Huddersfield 1933 Other Nations Stan Brogden, for England while at Bradford 1929 Other Nations; while at Huddersfield 1932 Wales x 2; 1933 Other Nations, Australia; while at Leeds 1935 France, Wales; 1936 Wales x 2, France; 1938 Wales; Hull 1938 Wales; 1939 France; 1941 Wales; 1943 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1929- 30 Australia; 1932 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 3; 1933 Australia x 2; while at Leeds 1936 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 2; 1937 Australia x 2

John "Jack" Chilcott, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield circa-1914 Douglas "Doug/Dougie/Duggy" Clark, for England while at Huddersfield 1912 Wales; 1913 Wales; 1914 Wales; 1921 Wales, Other Nations; 1925 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1911-12 Australia x 2; 1914 Australia x 3; 1920 Australia x 3, New Zealand x 3 Donald "Don" Close circa-1967 Lionel Cooper (#5) (Testimonial match 1955), for Other Nations while at Huddersfield circa-1951 ?-caps Eorl Crabtree, for England while at Huddersfield 2004 Russia (sub), France (sub), Ireland; 2005 France, New Zealand; 2006 France, Tonga x 2, Samoa (sub) Richard "Dick" Cracknell, for England while at Huddersfield 1951 France; 1952 Other Nations; 1953 France, Wales; while at Oldham 1953 France, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1951 New Zealand x 2 James "Jim" Davies (#7) Wales while at Huddersfield 1909 England, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield circa-1911 Pat Devery (#4), for Other Nations while at Huddersfield circa-1951 11-caps Frank Dyson (Testimonial match 1959), for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1959 New Zealand S. Gee, for England while at Huddersfield 1930 Other Nations Cyril Halliday, for England while at Huddersfield 1931 Wales Peter Henderson (#6), for Other Nations while at Huddersfield circa-1951 ?-caps Percy Holroyd, for England while at Huddersfield 1909 Australia Johnny Hunter (Testimonial match 1955) (#1) , for Other Nations while at Huddersfield circa-1951 ?-caps Benjamin "Ben" Gronow for Wales RU while at Bridgend RFC? (RU) 1910 4-caps , for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1911…20 7-caps Stuart Jones, for England while at Huddersfield 2004 Russia (sub)

William Kitchin, for England while at Huddersfield 1911 Wales, Australia Frederick "Fred" Longstaff, for England while at Huddersfield 1914 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1914 Australia, New Zealand Kenneth "Ken" Loxton, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield circa-1971 Stanley "Stan" Moorhouse, for England while at Huddersfield 1912 Wales; 1913 Wales; 1914 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1914 Australia, New Zealand Bob Nicholson (#11) (Testimonial match 1950), for England while at Huddersfield 1945 Wales; 1946 France; 1947 Wales; 1948 France; 1949 Wales, France, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1946 New Zealand; 1948 Australia x 2 Russell Pepperell (#1) (Testimonial match 1950), for England while at Huddersfield 1947 France, Wales; 1948 Wales; 1949 France Stanley "Stan" Pepperell (#3) (Testimonial match 1947), for England while at Huddersfield 1936 Wales; 1937 France; 1944 Wales Paul Reilly (Testimonial match 2007), for England while at Huddersfield 2004 France (sub), Ireland John "Johnny" Rogers, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield circa-1920 Albert Rosenfeld, for Australia while at Eastern Suburbs 1908 New Zealand x 3; while at Huddersfield 1909 Was It Against England Or Great Britain?

Kenneth "Ken" Senior, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield circa-1965 Thomas "Tommy" Smales, for England while at Huddersfield 1962 France; while Unattached (The only player to ever win England cap while Unattached) 1975 Papua New Guinea (sub), for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1962 France; 1963 France, Australia; 1964 France x 2; while at Bradford 1965 New Zealand x 3 J. W. Stocks , for England while at Huddersfield 1930 Other Nations Michael "Mick" Sullivan (#5), for England while at Huddersfield 1955 Other Nations; 1956 France; while at St Helens 1962 France, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1954 France x 2, New Zealand, Australia; 1955 New Zealand x 3; 1956 Australia x 3; 1957 France x 3, France, Australia, New Zealand; while at Wigan France x 2; 1958 France, Australia x 3, New Zealand x 2; 1959 France x 2, Australia x 3; 1960 France x 3, France, New Zealand, Australia; while at St Helens 1961 France, New Zealand x 2; 1962 France x 3, Australia x 3, New Zealand; while at York 1963 Australia (World Cup 1954 3-caps, 1-try; 1957 3-caps, 3-tries; 1960 3-caps, 1-try) Gwyn Thomas for Great Britain while at Huddersfield circa-1914 Christopher "Chris" Thorman, for England while at Huddersfield 2005 France, New Zealand Dave Valentine (Rob Valentine's older brother) (Testimonial match 1956) (#13), for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 15-caps (World Cup 1954 Captain 4-caps), for Scotland (RU) while at Hawick RFC (RU) 1947 2-caps, for Other Nations while at Huddersfield circa-1951 16-caps (signed for Huddersfield 1947-48) Rob Valentine (Dave Valentine's younger brother), for Great Britain (RL) while at Huddersfield 1967 Australia 1-cap, for Scotland (RU) while at Hawick RFC (RU)1963 3-caps, for Other Nations while at Keighley 1975 Lancashire (1 or 2)-caps (signed for Huddersfield 11/1963) Harold Wagstaff, for England while at Huddersfield 1909 Australia; 1910 Wales; 1911 Wales, Australia; 1912 Wales; 1913 Wales; 1914 Wales; 1921 Other Nations; 1923 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1911- 12 Australia x 2; 1914 Australia x 3, New Zealand; 1920 Australia x 2, New Zealand x 2; 1921-22 Australia x 2 Stephen Wild, for England while at Wigan 2005 New Zealand, for Great Britain while at Wigan 2004 Australia (sub); while at Huddersfield 2007 France Harold Young, for England while at Bradford 1928 Wales; while at Huddersfield 1929 Other Nations; 1930 Other Nations; 1931 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield 1929-30 Australia

John "Jock" Anderson (signed from Hawick RFC (RU)) Ernest Ashcroft (Former England & Great Britain international while at Wigan) Jeffrey "Jeff" Bawden (#4) (Testimonial match 1953) Kenneth "Ken" Bowman (Testimonial match 1965) Harry Bradshaw (#9), for England while at Dewsbury 1953 Other Nations, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield (World Cup 1954 Squad 0-caps) Malcom Branch (Testimonial match 1979) David "Dave" Busfield Conrad Byrne (1907-08 "All Gold")

Donald "Don" Close (Testimonial match 1968) Brandon Costin Peter Cramp (Testimonial match 1986) John "Jack" Daly Thomas "Tom" Davies (Testimonial match 1985) Michael De Vere Brad Drew Alex Fiddes (Testimonial match 1946) (signed from Hawick RFC (RU)) Neil Fox

Stanley Gene Gordon Gray, for Scotland (RU) while at Gala RFC (RU) 1935-37 4-caps (signed for Huddersfield 1937-38) Raymond "Ray" Haywood (Testimonial match 1969) Martin Hodgson David "Dave" Hooson (Testimonial match 1977) Austin Kilroy (Testimonial match 1966) Trevor Leathely (Testimonial match 1984) Dean Mountain (Testimonial match 1991) Kenneth "Ken" Noble Robbie Paul

Peter Ramsden (Testimonial match 1961) Patrick "Paddy" Reid Robert "Bob" Robson (signed from Hawick RFC (RU)) Derek Roe (Testimonial match 1984) Ronald "Ron" Rylance, for England while at Wakefield 1947 Wales, for Great Britain while at Huddersfield (World Cup 1954 Squad 0-caps) David Schofield (Testimonial match 1986) Michael "Mick" Shepherd (Testimonial match 1982) Edward "Ted" Slevin (Testimonial match 1962) Ian Thomas (Testimonial match 1993) William Trevarthen (1907-08 "All Gold") Pat Walsh Edgar Wrigley (1907-08 "All Gold")